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TIL that when Douglas Adams was writing Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, he created the Infinite Improbability Drive whenever he had no clue how to rescue Arthur and Ford when they were shot into space.

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eO4n TIL that in Denmark, some teachers use Swedish names for numbers when introducing children to mathematics, because of the irregular structure of the Danish number system. For example, the Danish “71” is structured as “1 plus 3½ times 20”.
5Y8rD TIL of Justo Gallego Martinez, a 90+ year old man who built a cathedral for the last 60 decades using only scrap material he could find near the building site
WkM8 TIL the female orgasm is similar to an epileptic seizure.
X06PD TIL right to private copying allows in Switzerland to download music, films and e-books through a tax on all storage media. (Art. 19 Abs. 1 lit. a URG). Copy protection can be removed from purchased software (Art. 39a Abs. 4 URG). File sharing and commercial use are illegal.
QJ8QL TIL your brain makes decisions for you seconds before you are even aware that any decision took place.